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LEO IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 439 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEO IV  ., called CHOZAR, succeeded his
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father,
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Constantine V., as emperor of the East in 775 . In 776 he associated his young son, Constantine, with himself in the
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empire, and suppressed a rising led by his five step-brothers which broke out as a result of this proceeding . Leo was largely under the influence of his wife
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Irene (q.v.), and when he died in 78o he
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left her as the
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guardian of his successor, Constantine VI .

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